It’s hard for us healthy elderly. It goes against the grain to ask strangers for help. We are used to helping others. Yet I know people over 65 who insist on doing their own marketing despite being begged, for the sake of fellow residents, not to do so.

From one day to the next, none of us knows for sure whether we we are carrying the virus. You can test negative one day and positive the next. People can be contagious before they ever feel symptoms, and can pass the virus along with no clue they are doing so.